5 Great Cookbook Picks for 2019
The owner of Brooklyn’s Archestratus offers highly independent recommendations
We know you’re still stopping by stores and browsing online trying to find the perfect last-minute gifts. We’ve asked the highly opinionated one-of-a-kind shop owner, Paige Lipari of Archestratus Books + Foods in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to give us a few recommendations (beyond the revised twentieth-anniversary edition of “How to Cook Everything,” of course). In true Paige fashion, she has cherry-picked this shortlist: Chances are, you won’t find most of them among other best-of lists.
“The Whole Fish Cookbook: New Ways to Cook, Eat and Think” by Josh Niland
I’m convinced I don’t know what good fish tastes like: This time last year, Josh Niland, a young wizard with a dry wit and a would-be Michelin-starred Sydney restaurant, was just getting ready to start writing his first cookbook, “The Whole Fish,” and his deadline was in a month. He managed to manifest a book brimming with impressive exploded-view photographs of fish butchered and splayed out into 31 different pieces with Kubrick-like…
